When Youtube bans the trailer, you know the book’s gonna be good

The Style, Sex, and Substance book comes out soon — like, any minute now. That’s the one that Hallie Lord edited, that has chapters by tons of fabulous contributors (and me). I’ll tell you more about why the book is good and post some excerpts later. What I want to talk about today is the fact that the trailer was removed and banned by Youtube. You can see it below, as it’s now hosted on another video site. Pretty scandalous stuff there, right? I’ve been having a bunch of email back-and-forths in which some of the other contributors and I have been speculating about why this happened, and here are our top guesses:

1. Youtube was scandalized when they figured out that Betty Duffy’s Twister reference was, in fact, sexual innuendo.

Anyway, I was going to wait to bring all this up until the book is officially released, but there are murmurs going around that it might sell out on pre-order and I wanted to make sure that MY readers get their copies without delay (please picture me throwing my head back and cackling MWA-HAA-HAAAA as I typed that). So, go preorder it now, and talk amongst yourselves about why this video was booted off of Youtube*.

* I offered to try to sneak it back on there through my account. Hallie started to say yes…then she remembered the demographic breakdown of my Youtube followers, imagined her book trailer getting a thousand “Dislikes” and being flooded with f-bomb-dropping comments, and politely told me that she’d just go ahead and put it on Vimeo.

I don’t know why …
I don’t understand why …
I don’t see any vulgar language …
I don’t see any violence …
I don’t see any nudity …
I don’t see any racial slurs ….
I just don’t get it …
I’m probably missing something …

Oh goody!! On the Amazon page it just has the link to click to “tell the publisher you want to read this on Kindle” so I clicked it. I guess the link to order it for Kindle will be added once the book is released.

Kindle pricing is there, less than a dollar difference (I know you don’t set that price, the publisher does). Are there photos or illustrations that will come out grainy on the Kindle? If so, I’ll buy the dead-tree version. But I’d rather have it on Kindle.

I am not a big Youtube fan so I don’t have any idea why Youtube pulls things. What is the normal procedure? Do they tell you? Is it possibly a mistake? Or a technical glitch? BTW, I didn’t get any music when I watched it, which could be my computer ineptness but I mention it in case it is a problem with the trailer.

Wow, that’s really weird that it was pulled! But I enjoyed the trailer, and LOVE your quote about climbing out of the window of the minivan in front of the church ladies. It’s so nice to know someone out there (even if we live a couple thousand miles apart) has a life quite similar to mine! Joy recently posted..Lately

I’m posting this perky little video on Facebook and encourage other “militant” (as in faithful and faith-filled) Catholic women to do the same!

BTW, Jennifer, please let Hallie know I am Catholic Lane’s assistant editor in charge of book, movie and media reviews! Have her send me a pre-order copy and I will surely give it a glowing review that helps all of you ladies, who are in this book, throw back your feminine heads, cackling “MWA-HAA-HAAAA” all the while!

And I suppose you think that all of the book’s authors will also simultaneously throw their head’s back and “cackle MWA-HAA-HAAAA” after they read my review, too?

Jennifer’s post was “tongue-in-cheek” and so was mine.

All of Catholic Lane’s articles go through careful review and editing before being published. Also, any book review would only be one person’s opinion, not fact (which are what all reviews are–someone’s opinion).

That said, I read Simcha’s and Jennifer’s posts regularly and I am familiar with a number of the other authors in this upcoming book as well. I have also heard some of them speak in person. They are solid Catholic writers, so there IS a good chance I WOULD give this book a positive review. But remember, EVERY review you read on any book, movie, or whatever, is just someone’s opinion.

Be assured it was not my intent to bring scandal on the name [term] Catholic!

I’ll bet it was because you used “God” and “Church” in close proximity. I’ve noticed that whenever I post an inspiring, poetic quote from the Bible on my Mindbloom profile, I get this nervous tittering message from the website saying, “Are you sure there’s nothing in your quote that could possibly be taken as offensive by anyone?” Whereas if I post something from a secular source, it passes without a bat of an eyelash.

@deMOAOC: It’s rather un-Catholic to accuse a fellow Catholic of nefarious deeds, especially when Jann’s tone was clearly jocular. Just relax, and feel the love!

Jennifer, hmmm, well, I’m afraid the negative publicity is doing its job. I received an email today from a man in our city who thought I might like this book. That’s how it came to my attention. And now I see it here. I guess that’s two hard nudges. And now that I’ve seen the trailer and recognize pretty much all the names involved, well, there’s nothing left to talk about. I look forward to reading it!Roxane B. Salonen recently posted..i’ll be back for breakfast!

Also, are you able to share any specifics as to why YouTube removed and banned the video? Of all things, I have a (secular) friend suggesting this is just a publicity stunt on your part, because the video is so tame.

I assure you that Jen is telling the truth. Originally, it was posted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQNoZW3lZwc&feature=share And, despite what the notice says, there was no spam, scam, or commercially deceptive content. It was posted exactly as it is on Vimeo now. Actually, I just checked, and the link to the YouTube page is still on my personal Facebook page with several comments from people who saw it on YouTube before it was pulled. If you want to friend me, I can show you! Hallie Lord recently posted..“Style, Sex, and Substance” has been released!

Nah, Mark’s just jealous that you and he are tied (well, last I looked, anyway) in that Catholic Blogs voting…thingy.

He got it pulled by saying it was insensitive to Jollies.

More seriously, sometimes YouTube videos get pulled because of background music. I know Kevin MacLeod sometimes has problems with people claiming his (free CC-BY) music as their own and feeding it into YouTube’s auto-takedown mechanisms.

P.S. the Website field in your combox is outlined in red. It’s like it’s glaring at me in anger over not adding my post to the Where I Write link list. Oh well.

My husband works in DevRel at YouTube. The way it works is that they rely on the community to flag videos. (There is over 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute) Someone must have flagged the video for some reason. It is relatively easy to get the video reinstated. The person who uploaded it needs to notify YouTube that they wish to contest the flagging. This will ensure that someone at YouTube ACTUALLY watches the video. I don’t see anything that would prevent it from being reinstated. If you still have problems, get back to me and my husband may be able to help out.